MPAA Rating: PG-13 Theater Release: 12/11/2009 Video Release: 5/18/2010 Buy it from Amazon: DVDVHS
The President and the Rugby Team - By Jeffrey Chen Invictus derives most of its pleasures from being an unconventional conbination of two seemingly unrelated genres of movies -- the biopic and the sports movie. If the two get combined, it would likely be a biopic about someone who plays in a sport, but in this case the movie... MORE >>
Leadership Lesson - By Betty Jo Tucker “Nelson Mandela -- a great leader or the greatest leader?” I can’t help imagining Stephen Colbert asking that question on his TV show. After watching Invictus, starring Morgan Freeman as Mandela, I would definitely rank this iconic political figure in one of... MORE >>
Not Only for Love of the Game - By Donald Levit “Based on actual events,” John Carlin’s Playing the Enemy was scripted by Anthony Peckham into Invictus. Even those who know zilch about rugby or this 2009 biopic cannot but be familiar with the outcome from its place of pride within the mass coverage of Nelson Mandela’s... MORE >>
